pears, here 50% of wool is produced, 50% of livestock, sheep breeding, development of viticulture - this is a huge, huge potential that today will be, is already being realized, will be realized within the framework of the tasks that are set and outlined by the president of the russian federation. to summarize briefly, i would like to note that, of course, the task of today’s forum, which is being held for the second time, is to...

on logistics routes with other countries, and once again, answering your question, i will say that the potential is enormous , together with the heads of regions, who are actively engaged in this, together with the government, federal executive authorities, the public, businesses who are present here on the panel today, we will do everything to justify these hopes to create conditions for improving the standard of living, quality of life and the implementation of all new projects, which are intended here. thank you very much, alexander valentinovich, with us today is the minister of investment, industry and trade of the republic of uzbekistan, lazis kudratov, lazis shavkatovich, looking from tashkent, great the caucasus, does it already seem to you like such a consolidated interlocutor, or for you, each republic is unique in itself and negotiations on the part of a friendly state and investments must be conducted with everyone separately, so what projects do you already have with whom? thank you very much, a very

interesting question, for me personally, today i am visiting grozny for the first time, i was actually pleasantly surprised by the level of development, the dynamics of development of the city of grozny, i see how actively construction is going on in the city, how clean the streets are, so here is the the work carried out by management is visual, it is visible.

cooperation and taking into account that a large number of entrepreneurs are involved here, i would like to encourage active participation in the preparation and implementation of business initiatives; we, together with the government of the russian federation, have formed a joint fund, which is aimed primarily at supporting interregional cooperation projects, and we encourage you to use this platform, this platform. the fund's assets amount to $500 billion and of course that's all entrepreneurs can use these resources to implement joint initiatives. in the near future we are planning a visit by a delegation from our regions and subjects of the north

caucasus; at the end of june, the mayor of our capital with a representative delegation of business circles will visit the city of grozny, i think there will be concrete results here. if a bank like vtb is present, well , that means everything is probably serious, andrei ilinich, if big banks are not involved in this, then do you have any serious plans for this region, the greater caucasus? that means yes, of course

of course, otherwise i would not be here, but first of all i would like to say words of gratitude to alexander valentinovich, ramzan akhmatovich and congratulate them on holding this very important forum, you know, for me everyone’s visit to grozny evokes such dramatic memories, because that the first time i came here in the 2000s, when the war had not yet completely ended, they brought me to the square of the minute, and there was no square, there were stones, and not even a single stone was intact, every stone was disfigured by the war, bullets, wounds, shells,

and as you know, in this masterpiece of leonid gaidai the formula of the caucasus was very clearly formulated, where it was said that the caucasus is an all-union forge, and a health resort, and a granary, in many ways, this one, that means, this triumverate, it has survived to this day;

the north caucasus has a very significant economic transit potential, which is supported by solid labor resources, as has already been said here, climate, history.

also having experience working with these states with companies in these states, also contribute to these processes, and we have ramzan makmatovich, god willing, how well he works himself. in this direction he knows almost all the leaders of these states. all these natural competitive advantages must be used as efficiently as possible. the dynamics of recent years confirm that the measures of state support for business currently in force in the north caucasus and the active attraction of private capital can ensure rates higher than the russian average, as slandinovich has already spoken about here, but really in last year we see that in terms of the pace of industrial production, even though it seems... we don’t consider the north caucasus to be an industrial region, but the pace

was almost twice the russian average, but of course, it has its own problems, investment attractiveness the north caucasus is negatively impacted by factors such as social instability, the continuing threat of terrorist attacks, which we last heard of, fortunately this does not apply to chechen, but applies to a number of other regions. quite high level unemployment, although it has decreased significantly over the past year, and the shadow sector in the economy, which constitutes a significant place today and which interferes, among other things, with lending to the economy. these problems are multi-layered, delicate, and, of course, cannot be solved in a short time, but it is important to remember that in large part they have an economic component, and here there is something to work with both the state and... representatives of private business, who are also well represented here , i think he will say more about this, i must say that in recent years

state support is comprehensive, a whole package of proposals and , or rather, decisions that the state has already developed, have been echoed; they, of course, give confidence and stimulate interest in the region of private capital; at the level of our bank, we see the role of private business seriously in investment processes. is increasing, generally speaking, what needs to be done to improve the investment climate is, of course, creating more favorable conditions for business, not least associated with expanding the availability of credit, and also the development of financial, industrial transport and logistics infrastructure, vtb, in fact, like other major banks, is ready and working in all these areas, i can outline very briefly, since you asked, what are we doing? vtb bank has now adopted a new strategy , where a special place

is given to the development of activities in the regions, this certainly affects both the southern federal district and the north caucasus federal district, and if we take only the north caucasus federal district, then by the end of next year we plan to double practically the number of offices that we have is from 25 to 47, and if we take... only chechnya, then yes, we will open in those republics where we do not yet exist, in ingushetia, karachayev, circassia, so we we will be present in all, in all regions of the north caucasus federal district, in chechnya we also plan to increase the number of our offices from three to nine, today we are present in two cities, we will be in five, in the end we consider it important not only the physical accessibility of the bank. for the client, but also to improve the range and quality of services, which the bank provides to entrepreneurs and

the population of the region, ultimately, an increase in the level of penetration of financial services will make the regional financial market more transparent, and this, in turn, is an extremely important factor in a sustainable business investment climate and an important factor in pushing out the shadow economy from the region’s economy. at the bank level, we record high demand for loans from medium and small businesses, and especially enterprises in the agro-industrial sector, which plays an important role in economy of the greater caucasus. the total loan portfolio of vtb in the segment of medium and small businesses in two federal districts exceeded 450 billion rubles. this is 14% of vtb’s total loan portfolio in this category, and we expect further growth. we lend to the industry. which have become the main engines of economic growth are construction, trade, industry, agriculture, and tourism. at the same time

, i would like to emphasize that most of the loans issued this year are investment in the north caucasus federal region, their share almost 60%. in the southern federal district - 70. uh, the implementation of the international north-south transport corridor project will have a huge impact on the economy of the entire caucasus region. subjects of russia in the north caucasian federal district and the south, it will give a new impetus for development and strengthen export potential, by decision of the government of the russian federation, vtb bank (appointed as the project office for the development of this transport corridor, a whole range of different options are being studied, to one degree or another they affect dagestan, of course, and the caspian caspian route. holiday season, i can’t help but say a few words about the development of the tourism industry; the president has set the task of doubling its contribution

to russia’s gdp to 5% by the year 1930. as you know, the tourism industry has one of the highest multipliers and, like a locomotive, pulls along many related industries. it is interesting that the sphere of tourism, travel, hospitality, as we know from examples, for example, our friends from the united arab emirates, are capable of literally transforming entire countries, radically positively changing their trajectory development. one of the expected positive results is worth highlighting. especially among young people. we are actively involved as a bank in lending to large projects in the field of tourism, healthcare, in karachay cherkessia, north ossetia in stavropol, indeed, where else there are such resorts

as we have prelbrusiya, for example, or dombay for alpine skiing, i know, igroslov, but...

really a hero, here is the only person who trusts, believes, yes, really helps the regions, they looked at us through the house, with a magnifying glass, yes, when we we contacted andreyevich, he is everything, there are no problems, we would always feel comfortable with him, yes. i would like to thank him in front of everyone, yes for his unambiguousness, he for his trust and for his support for his understanding, yes, everyone thinks that the state gives us a lot of money, yes, he wants people to understand that they pay the heroes of russia, yes, he pays 10,000 rubles from the budget , yes, he is the master siluanov forbade us to pay

these 10,000 rubles and officially sent a letter asking you not to pay. to the heroes of the russian federation and this is how they treat the budgets of the regions, especially the chechen republics everyone thinks that the chechen republic gets as much money as it wants , that is, everyone thinks that the chechen republic receives money from the state, while andrei leonedchu gives money, so he returned it , that’s what’s interesting.

is going so fast that the tourism infrastructure has not kept up for a long time and business should... take advantage of this situation, and at this moment you, what kind of business did you have in mind, the business of andrei leonidovich, the business of vitaly leontievich, or maybe mikhail safarbekovich, well, when we are talking about development of tourism, firstly, this is a public-private partnership, in fact, here the state’s contribution is involved in supporting tourism, to start, for example, alexander nikolaevich will probably talk about the project that he is currently involved in, this is... hys, but the beginning of this project was due to the joint work of the state, the region, the korochestsky republic, we invested federal money in the project.

development of tourism, into the attractiveness of the north caucasus region. 60% of all investments today are made in the tourism sector to date. and as you know, i will once again return to the president’s instructions based on the results of his address to the federal assembly. the decree spells out one of the goals - to increase the share of our country’s gross domestic product, that is, in the tourism economy to 5%. now it is 2.5 on average. throughout the country, i can say that in the north caucasus, due to the investments that have been made recently, the share of tourism in the economy is already 4.7%, that

is, actually close to five, which is the average for the country, that's why we we agreed with our colleagues, with our regional leaders, ramzan akhmatovich, that 5% is the minimum, we will strive for higher headscarves, seven, and maybe higher, so tourism will be... one of the main areas of development of the caucasus . thank you, alexander valentinovich. let’s ask mikhail safarbekovich, where is he going to invest in the caucasus? you really know which one he has. that's right, of course, to the chechen republic. actually, actually, actually, about the chechen republic, i actually, i’m an urazhenist, i was born, of course, in kazakhstan, but for many years i lived in the formidable, chechen ingushetia, back in that soviet one. and i am very glad that today i am in grozny, that grozny is turning from a theater of military operations into a theater of economic reforms and economics, i am very glad that i am at

this economic forum, i think this is the first very correct forum is in the right place , why in the right way, in soviet times, well, i discard rostov-krasnodar, starting from stavropol, then today’s north caucasus district. in concept was also the same, that is , the north caucasus main oil pipelines, caucasus transgas, rostroboprovod-stroy, the largest north caucasian monopolies of that soviet period were located here in grozny, and grozny was such a flagship, the flagship of management from the point of view of industry, i was a member of the soviet era, absolutely a young man, in grozny... a member of the bureau, was a deputy, headed the planned budget commission, i ’ll finish, now i’ll explain what i want to say, the planned budget commission, grozny

produced almost 22 million tons of petroleum products, grozny supplied more than 500 production oils ranging from the rocket industry to ordinary automobile oils; grozny supplied 100,000 tons of chechen-ingushetia. 100,000 tons of vegetables only to moscow directly , a direct contract was signed with moscow and 100,000 tons of vegetables were supplied and much, much more, and let’s say merino 64 fine wool, the entire soviet army from lieutenant to marshal was sewn from wool fabric which is here in the shalkovsky district in terechny in urssky and this was merino.

jobs, that is, you remove social tension, which is the main synonym for social , along the course of your investments you create tension, this is poverty, this is loneliness, this is depression, this is drug addiction, alcoholism, thank god, in the caucasus it is less drug addiction, everything else, yes, that is associated with derivatives, with these

negatives, it is. social tension, how it can be killed, how it can be poisoned, of course, objects of social and cultural significance, the first is classic business, the second is a private public partnership, private money is invested with by the state into an infrastructure facility. today, today, the main thing that the north caucasus requires, in my opinion, is, of course, logistics, taking into account the development of marketplaces, taking into account that. already in every settlement, i literally even drove here in the chechen republic, in ingushetia in small settlements, ozon, valtbarist, small shops, shops are dying, marketplaces are becoming, what is needed for a marketplace, logistics centers are needed, and it seems to me that investments in logistics centers, private public partnership is especially important when it comes to it, of course, 50% of it

is electricity.

the first admission, by the way, from the chechen republic, more than 20%, out of a thousand applicants , two pools were selected and today, today already 150 programmers in 14 professions are already studying in the city of magas, this is the first graduation, in the same year there will be a second pool, a third pool there are a thousand people who want a lot, but we take somewhere around 150, we select, we expect that by the end of this...

the project, can it be profitable? of course, it cannot be profitable, but it can be effective, it can self-regulate, that is, let’s say, this year, next year, if we are our regional product, training, let’s say, yes, in creating it companies, our second program is an artificial intelligence course, yes, i’ll finish it now, it’s very interesting, they definitely are, i know it’s interesting. to teach, but because it’s interesting for everyone, it’s new, i ’ll finish, i’ll finish now 2 minutes, what i want, i wanted to say that these courses, they are already starting to be sold, here is kazan, i have already asked tatarstan to sell such a course next year there is a course of lectures, and in this way we begin to earn money, which can constantly support this academy, that’s it, i’m finished, thank you.